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Previously on "This ear eyer ejumakashen ain't all it's cracked up to be."

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by Platypus View Post
    Hold on!? You mean that when Bliar argued this, he might have been wrong? I'm shocked

    (1) Fact: People with degrees earn more on average
    (2) Deduction: if everyone has a degree, everyone will earn more
    (3) Conclusion: we must send everyone to university

    I just can't get over that anyone can be questioning this infallible piece of logic. I need a lie down.
    (4) Assumption - there are loads of well paid vacancies for graduates in Drama and Medja Studies

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  • Platypus
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    Hold on!? You mean that when Bliar argued this, he might have been wrong? I'm shocked

    (1) Fact: People with degrees earn more on average
    (2) Deduction: if everyone has a degree, everyone will earn more
    (3) Conclusion: we must send everyone to university

    I just can't get over that anyone can be questioning this infallible piece of logic. I need a lie down.

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  • NickFitz
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    A friend's wife worked at one of the local universities until recently (the one that used to be a polytechnic). The powers that be, though unable to say it in public, are wholly against the increase in the number of British students over the last few years. They make a lot more from foreign students; for example, English-as-a-foreign-language courses for trainee officers from the Kuwaiti air force bring in a heck of a lot more than they get from teaching bra-and-knicker design - oh, sorry, "Contour Engineering" - to British school leavers.

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    I found the timetable from the Electrical/Electronic Engineering course at Loughborough 40 years ago.

    It was almost 9 to 5 for four and a half days a week.

    Wednesday afternoon being reserved for sports of course.
    One of my mates at uni did Electrical Engineering.

    It was a similar timetable, with the odd one hour break in between lectures.

    And the prof would organise "voluntary" seminars for those breaks.

    "Voluntary" in the army sense of course. They got marked down elsewhere if they didn't attend.

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  • vetran
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    pretty much what most people have been saying for years.

    we should just print degrees from the university of New Lie and teach them all to talk about updation.

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  • This ear eyer ejumakashen ain't all it's cracked up to be.

    Hold on! Degrees for all doesn't mean great jobs for all, say profs ? The Register

    Combine that with the incessant dumbing down & really & truly a lot of them really are only fit for

    Originally posted by Ex esteemed customer
    Would you like fries with that


    YMMV of course.

    Then again, I am in the sump of eyer ejumakashen.

    I found the timetable from the Electrical/Electronic Engineering course at Loughborough 40 years ago.

    It was almost 9 to 5 for four and a half days a week.

    Wednesday afternoon being reserved for sports of course.
    Last edited by zeitghost; 23 May 2017, 17:49.

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